Q&A: Melissa Nobles on guest-editing Nature to examine racism in science
MIT chancellor and colleagues help lead special project examining how bias has distorted the scientific enterprise — and how to make things better.
MIT chancellor and colleagues help lead special project examining how bias has distorted the scientific enterprise — and how to make things better.
The new museum opens Oct. 2 at the gateway between Kendall Square and campus.
The MIT Museum director describes how the museum is reinventing itself for the 21st century.
Longtime MIT researcher and former associate director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center contributed to fusion energy progress on campus and around the world.
Building and working a clay-and-grass furnace, teachers and students learn more than how to turn ore into metal.
Christoph Paus, the MIT physicist who co-led the effort to detect the particle, looks ahead to the next 10 years.
Following the successful development of vaccines against Covid-19, scientists hope to deploy mRNA-based therapies to combat many other diseases.
“Carbon Queen” explores how the Institute Professor transformed our understanding of the physical world and made science and engineering more accessible to all.
MIT scientists discuss the future of AI with applications across many sectors, as a tool that can be both beneficial and harmful.
HASTS PhD student Rijul Kochhar tracks changing medical and microbial realities, and examines what they portend for society.
New case studies series examines social, ethical, and policy challenges of present-day computing activities.
A brief history of a 1950s photo featuring Joseph Thompson, one of the original operators of MIT’s groundbreaking Whirlwind computer.
In a new MIT class, students explore how STEM researchers bring their knowledge to major societal issues.
To understand ourselves and our place in the universe, “we should have humility but also self-respect,” the physicist writes in a new book.
Curiosity-driven basic science in the 1970s laid the groundwork for today’s leading vaccines against the novel coronavirus.